Bird on Fire Chapter 4

Feng Kai had no interest in these things and often fell asleep while Grant Gu was talking.

School life seems peaceful.

Feng Kai sometimes wondered, was his main mission after "traveling through time" to deepen his understanding of his father-in-law?

This is too ridiculous...

However, before this, he only knew that his father-in-law was the leader of the Municipal Bureau, and he didn't know that his father-in-law was actually a trace investigator. Feng Kai believes that technology is always only an auxiliary means of investigation. How did a trace investigator become the head of the Public Security Bureau?

He had never heard his father-in-law brag about his achievements, and of course he would not brag in front of a son-in-law whom he looked down upon, so Feng Kai was indeed curious about his father-in-law's career as a police officer.

After all, Grant Gu, who now calls him "big brother", doesn't look like a leader at all.

On the contrary, it is difficult for Grant Gu to integrate with the people around him and to fully communicate with his teachers and classmates. For so long, the only person he can talk to smoothly is still his "big brother" Feng Kai. However, he is very dedicated to his major and has a strong desire for knowledge. This may be what we call a "science and engineering geek" in modern times.

If my task is to help Grant Gu become the top leader, that would be too difficult.

As I was daydreaming, time passed faster and faster, and before I knew it, it was the end of July.

Feng Kai didn't know that something big was about to happen.

4

Teacher Pan was brought back to the dormitory by Grant Gu.

When we entered the door, Grant Gu walked in front of us alone, with his head down, looking very embarrassed. On the contrary, Teacher Pan arrived before us, but his voice was first: "Your living conditions are pretty good."

Feng Kai heard a strange voice, put on his slippers and went to the door. He saw a fat old man wearing a dirty white police uniform, a green schoolbag slung over his shoulder, fanning himself with his police hat, and following Grant Gu with heavy breathing, as if he couldn't catch up with him. The old man's fat body made the police uniform full of wrinkles, just like the kind wrinkles on his face.

"Look at you, you didn't even tell me you had guests. At least we should clean up the place." Feng Kai said to Grant Gu, "Please let the old man in first. How can you be so rude?"

Feng Kai spoke to Grant Gu in this elder's tone, initially just for his own selfish reasons, but it had unknowingly become a habit. Fortunately, Grant Gu never felt that there was anything wrong with it.

The old man is Pan Dong, and his ancestral home is in Longfan City. He said that if he added "Zi" after his name, it would be the same as the name of the protagonist in the classic feature film "The Red Star" which was popular in 1974. However, his own experience is no less than Pan Dongzi. Since he was 10 years old, he followed his family to the mountains to avoid the Japanese raids. In his youth, he also participated in the guerrillas and killed Japanese with his own hands. Later, he joined the Eighth Route Army and became a scout. Since he was a scout, he had to learn some knowledge of tracking based on traces. For some reason, Pan Dong seemed to have a talent for traces. Not only did he learn to track traces, he also found many books on fingerprint identification in the Republic of China and taught himself the knowledge of fingerprints. In this way, after 1949, he transferred to the Shanghai Public Security Bureau and became one of the first experts in China to study trace detection technology.

Because of his outstanding performance in the field of trace detection, Pan Dong was hired by the Ministry of Public Security as a part-time teacher at the Police Cadre School of the Ministry of Public Security, which is now called a visiting professor. A considerable part of the mimeographed materials that Grant Gu received were written by Teacher Pan.

Teacher Pan is invited by the Ministry of Public Security to give a class to the trainees at the Ministry of Public Security Police School every year. It is a practical course that combines theory and practice. He came to teach this training class as scheduled, but the school's guesthouse was full. Because Grant Gu's dormitory had an empty bed and he was a fellow villager of Teacher Pan, Teacher Pan took the initiative to ask to live with Grant Gu.

Feng Kai didn't expect that this fat old man with an unprepossessing appearance was so influential and cultured. He immediately felt respect for him and quickly asked Teacher Pan to sit down.

"As for me, I like places with a lot of people the most." Teacher Pan sat in front of the table with a smile on his face and took out a bottle of Moutai from his bag like a magic trick.

"Oh my god, there's Maotai to drink." Feng Kai was delighted. He could drink alcohol in the police academy. It was not like in modern times, where police and alcohol were completely mutually exclusive. He counted out a few meal tickets and handed them to Grant Gu, saying, "Today is Tuesday. The canteen only has cabbage stewed with vermicelli. You can buy more."

"It's okay, I still have some here!" Teacher Pan took out another bag of peanuts from his bag and said, "I'm old now, and I can't sleep if I don't drink something at night."

Grant Gu doesn't drink much, especially in front of strangers. No matter how Teacher Pan persuades him, he just avoids his eyes and shakes his hands. Feng Kai is not polite. He chats with Teacher Pan and drinks a bottle of Maotai. In fact, Feng Kai is very surprised, because his original alcohol tolerance is only two or three taels, but now with this body, he can drink half a catty without blushing or beating his heart. He will not be afraid of drinking with others in the future.

Teacher Pan's war stories were also really exciting. Feng Kai was fascinated by them and felt that they were more exciting than the best anti-Japanese dramas in modern times. Grant Gu was more interested in a series of major cases that Teacher Pan solved after 1949. He also listened quietly with relish. When Teacher Pan asked him about his trace detection techniques, he was so nervous that he hesitated and couldn't explain it clearly.

Teacher Pan did not embarrass Grant Gu at all. He just smiled generously and said meaningfully: "Believe me, this technology will give you a different life."

Feng Kai laughed secretly in his heart and thought, this should be my prediction, right?

Unconsciously, they chatted for more than four hours. The lights were turned off at school, and Teacher Pan was a little tipsy after three rounds of drinking. Grant Gu wanted to talk to Teacher Pan about the "female worker case", but was too embarrassed to speak, so she began to clean up the dishes. When she came back from washing the dishes, she found that Feng Kai and Teacher Pan had fallen asleep.

Grant Gu lay on the bed and couldn't fall asleep for a long time. Although he seemed calm after listening to the stories all night, his heart was still surging. The strong testosterone of the young man stimulated his thoughts. After all, he was a seven-foot man. No matter how unconfident he was, no matter how bad he was at getting along with others, no matter how much he resisted being a policeman at first, the heroic sentiment of being brave and devoted still filled his heart. Although he was born in a peaceful era, he still longed for the kind of open-minded life of a man with a sword in hand. It was also on this night that he had some yearning and hope for the profession of public security for the first time.

The safety of the country depends half on public security.

Yes, as a public security officer, in peacetime, I also fight on the battlefield and defend my country. If my body is not good, I can practice. If I can't practice, I can use the fingerprints in my hand to deliver bullets to my comrades on the front line. As long as it is to defend the motherland and the people, what is the difference between this and building the motherland as a worker?

As he was thinking, Grant Gu also fell asleep. He dreamed that he was riding a fiery red horse, galloping on the grassland. He was wearing a white police uniform and carrying a Type 54 pistol, looking very majestic. Suddenly, his horse seemed to lose its front hoof, and he suddenly fell off the horse's back and rolled on the grass.

"Why are you shaking my bed?" Feng Kai's voice came from the other side of the bed.

"No." Grant Gu also woke up, but still felt dizzy.

"Oh no! There's an earthquake! Run!" Feng Kai, wearing a vest, jumped up from the bed, grabbed Grant Gu's arm and rushed out of the dormitory.

Many dormitories had lights on, and some students ran to the square outside the dormitory building with them. Feng Kai was confused at this time. How could there be an earthquake in Shenyang? This was too scary. The buildings in this era were made of brick and concrete. I'm afraid they couldn't withstand a magnitude 5 earthquake. If he died in this era, how could he reunite with Gwen Gu?

"No, that's not right. We have to go back!" Grant Gu said, and turned from the square and ran towards the dormitory building.

At this time, Feng Kai remembered that there was a teacher named Pan living in his dormitory. Teacher Pan was a little drunk at night and seemed to be still asleep.

The two rushed into the dormitory and turned on the light. Unexpectedly, the fat teacher Pan was lying on the ground beside the bed. His arms were covered with black ash, and matched with his white vest, he looked like a panda lying on the ground.

When Teacher Pan saw them enter the room, he put one hand on his waist and shouted angrily: "Turn off the lights! Why turn on the lights!"

Feng Kai immediately laughed. Judging from the posture of Instructor Pan, he had told too many stories at night and thought he was in the war era. After the earthquake, Instructor Pan woke up from his sleep and thought there was an enemy, so he lay down, hid, and prepared to draw his gun. At this time, turning on the light and seeing the bright light would expose himself.

"It's not a war, it's an earthquake." Feng Kai held back his laughter and went to pull Teacher Pan off the ground.

"Oh my, no, no, my legs are numb." Teacher Pan also woke up completely.

"I'll carry you, let's go." Grant Gu squatted down and put Teacher Pan on his back, but after holding his strength for a long time, he still couldn't stand up.

"Let me do it." Feng Kai replaced Grant Gu and successfully carried Teacher Pan out of the dormitory building.

During this process, Feng Kai actually realized that this was not the Shenyang earthquake at all, but the Tangshan earthquake in 1976 that caused huge casualties and property losses.

(9)

. Shenyang just felt the strong earthquake.

Carrying the 180-pound teacher Pan, Feng Kai did not feel tired, not because he was strong, but because he was deeply remorseful. When he arrived at the square, he even forgot to put teacher Pan down to rest.

Grant Gu noticed Feng Kai's abnormality and tried to ask him what was wrong, but Feng Kai couldn't hear what he was saying at all.

Feng Kai thought, if he could have predicted the Tangshan earthquake to his superiors, wouldn't so many people have died? But he changed his mind and realized that he couldn't change history. First of all, he didn't remember the exact time of the Tangshan earthquake. Secondly, even if he had predicted it, he had no evidence, and the biggest possibility was that he would be arrested as a mental patient. Thinking of this, Feng Kai's heavy mood was relieved a little.

Teacher Pan's legs have regained sensation and he can walk normally. He is extremely grateful to Grant Gu and Feng Kai. He said that true friendship can only be seen in times of adversity. The two's behavior reminded Teacher Pan of the comradeship during the war years and he was very moved. Feng Kai quickly pushed Grant Gu in front of Teacher Pan and said that he was the first one to think of rushing back to find Teacher Pan, and he dared not take the credit.

Teacher Pan was even more moved after hearing this. He put his hands behind his back and walked around the thin Grant Gu for a few times, squinting his eyes to look at this shy young man. Grant Gu couldn't stand it. He almost didn't know where to put his hands. Teacher Pan said to Grant Gu: "I think you are good. I have written my office phone number and address in your notebook. If you encounter technical problems in your work in the future, remember to call or telegram. I guarantee that the medicine will be cured immediately."

What a simple way to repay someone, Feng Kai thought.

When will I be able to have the confidence that Teacher Pan has? Grant Gu wondered.

In the 1970s, when information was not well developed, such a major event suddenly occurred, and the school leaders did not even know what was going on. The teachers and students gathered in the square for an hour, and when it seemed that the sky was about to get light, everyone realized that there would be no aftershocks, so they all returned to the dormitory to catch up on some sleep.

The next day's classes continued as usual. At noon, the news of the earthquake finally reached the school, and the school's chief instructor blew the emergency assembly whistle after lunch.

In front of the neatly lined up students, the chief instructor reported the general situation of the Tangshan earthquake. An industrial city was almost razed to the ground overnight, the railway was even deformed, the traffic was almost paralyzed, and the number of casualties was in the hundreds of thousands. When one side is in trouble, all sides will support it. Treatment centers for the injured of the Tangshan earthquake were set up in many places across the country. It is possible that the injured will be sent to nearby treatment centers for treatment this afternoon. The school leaders decided that all students in the Ministry of Public Security Police Cadre School should pack their bags and rush to the treatment centers to provide support for the transportation of the injured, order management, and material transportation at the treatment centers. All courses during this period were changed to self-study.

Regardless of the era, the police's mobility and execution capabilities are quite strong. Just twenty minutes after the chief instructor's speech, the trainees had packed their backpacks, jumped onto the carriages of the Jiefang brand trucks lined up in a row, and headed for the treatment point.

For Feng Kai, this kind of thing is commonplace. In the 21st century, public security can be said to be the profession with the widest coverage of society. In the face of the epidemic, the police will not retreat; when floods hit, the police will not retreat. Whether it is a natural disaster or a man-made disaster, the police are indispensable. Not to mention the most grassroots police station, even when working in the criminal police detachment of the bureau, Feng Kai would often be sent to the front line to perform various tasks.